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5400rpm vs 7200rpm

robphelan

robphelan

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i have a vid device (RCA Lyra 2780) that has a 120gb 5400rpm drive... it can be pretty slow sometimes to load a movie/video.

would it improve performance significantly to upgrade to a 7200rpm drive?

playback is fine and never skips, but getting to the movie can take a long time.

forgot to mention that the device requires the drive to be formatted as FAT32.
 
It would make some difference, however is probably not worth it.

Although seek times do improve when going to higher spindle speeds you are only talking milliseconds and a film should be fairly contiguous on the drive, and thus shouldn't need too many seeks.
 
is this the same drive where u operating system is installed? cuz maybe that OS and your whole drive hasnt been defragmented for some time. this would slow down an already slower hdd even more.

try to get a trial of Raxco Perfect Disk and see what it can do for u 🙂
 
Originally posted by: BlingBlingArschis this the same drive where u operating system is installed? cuz maybe that OS and your whole drive hasnt been defragmented for some time. this would slow down an already slower hdd even more. try to get a trial of Raxco Perfect Disk and see what it can do for u 🙂
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What OS? OP is not talking about a computer - it is a stand alone video system with hard drive storage.
RCA

 
i've defragged and that did seem to help.. but, the more i think about it, the seek times probably wouldn't justify the cost.
 
I have an Archos AV500 that has a 100gb HD and its only 4200RPM and it loads vids pretty fast. Only about 2 secs, and caches every 15 secs or so with no skips or lag.
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
Originally posted by: BlingBlingArschis this the same drive where u operating system is installed? cuz maybe that OS and your whole drive hasnt been defragmented for some time. this would slow down an already slower hdd even more. try to get a trial of Raxco Perfect Disk and see what it can do for u 🙂
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What OS? OP is not talking about a computer - it is a stand alone video system with hard drive storage.
RCA
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oops, ur right. i didnt recognize that info. still the defragging hint was not too far out 😉
 
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